Su Yi was lazy.

However, he wasn’t heartless. If something had happened to Cha Jin’s family, he naturally wouldn’t just sit back and watch.

Thus, he and Cha Jin left that very day, departing Heaven’s Origin Academy on the back of Ning Sihua’s Bluescale Eagle.

……

The Great Wei was west of the Great Zhou. Its territory was vast, but it was piercingly cold year-round, and it snowed most of the year. 

Thus, the Great Wei was also called “the Land of Snow.”

Martial arts were in vogue here too. Regardless of age and gender, everyone saw becoming a martial artist as an honor.

Celestial Palace City.

This was the imperial capital of the Great Wei. It was prosperous and flourishing, and neither its size nor its years of accumulated history were the least bit inferior to the Great Zhou’s Jade Capital. It might have even been superior. 

Today was the seventeenth day of the fifth lunar month.

The skies were dark and overcast, and flurries as soft as goose feathers floated in the air, interspersed with biting, bone-chilling winds.

The Bluescale Eagle carrying Su Yi and Cha Jin landed several miles from Celestial Palace City.

Layers of snow blanketed the earth, crunching...